In relation to an experiment I'm working on, I wrote a Java test agent to find the fastest way to get note id's from a view/fetching document values from documents in a view.
Here are the results from the benchmark:
All numbers are milliseconds. The code was run on a desktop computer (Core 2 Duo/Windows XP).
The benchmark code is written so that I think caching on the server is avoided between tests. What's interesting from the results is that it seems like it's marginally faster to fetch the note ids from the view/open the document by note id if you want to read values from the document.
If you want to run the benchmark in your application, here's the source code:
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The code is designed for running the test agent in a browser. Change the constants TEST_VIEW_NAME to the name of a view you want to test, and TEST_FIELD_NAME to a field name that the documents in the view have.
If you run the benchmark/get different results, let me know :)